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71092d70 1Bugfixes:
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2* the running hwdb seems not to pick up updated database files without
3 an explicit: udevadm control --reload
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5* enabling an instance unit creates pointless link, and
6 the unit will be started with getty@getty.service:
7 $ systemctl enable getty@.service
8 ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/getty@.service' '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@.service'
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10* check systemd-tmpfiles for selinux context hookup for mknod(), symlink() and similar
11
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12* swap units that are activated by one name but shown in the kernel under another are semi-broken
13
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14* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
15 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
16 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
17
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18* make polkit checks async
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a40593a0 20* properly handle .mount unit state tracking when two mount points are stacked one on top of another on the exact same mount point.
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22* ellipsize_mem must take into account multi-byte unicode characters, and
23 - make the resulting line the requested number of *characters*, not *bytes*,
24 - avoid truncuating multi-byte sequences in the middle.
25
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26* When we detect invalid UTF-8, we cant't use it in an error message:
27 log...("Path is not UTF-8 clean, ignoring assignment: %s", rvalue);
28
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29* shorten the message to sane length:
30
31 Cannot add dependency job for unit display-manager.service, ignoring: Unit display-manager.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs and 'systemctl status display-manager.service' for details.
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466784c8 33Fedora 20:
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dc7adf20 35* external: ps should gain colums for slice and machine
7b4da18c 36
81d112a8 37* localed:
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38 - localectl: support new converted x11→console keymaps
39
55d32caf 40* when installing fedora with yum --installroot /var/run is a directory, not a symlink
466784c8 41 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=975864
55d32caf 42
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43CGroup Rework Completion:
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94bbc991 45* introduce "mainpid" for scopes (or maybe not?)
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47* implement system-wide DefaultCPUAccounting=1 switch (and similar for blockio, memory?)
48
49* implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
50
51* handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
52
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53* make BlockIODeviceWeight=, BlockIODeviceBandwidth= runtime settable
54
049b4474 55* introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
bafb15ba 56
431c72dc 57* wiki: document new bus APIs of PID 1 (transient units, Reloading signal)
bafb15ba 58
eb124a97 59Features:
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61* Move backlight and random-seed into /var/lib/systemd
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d2e2c03d 63* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink generate a clean
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64 error. Currently we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
65 path anyway.
66
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67* When a Type=forking service fails and needed another service that
68 service is not cleaned up again when it has StopWhenUnneeded=yes
69 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-July/012141.html
70
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71* backlight: properly handle multiple backlight devices for the same
72 hardware: at shutdown we should only save the backlight setting for
73 the "best" way to access the backlight. Strategy should be: at
74 shutdown, ignore all backlights that are connected to a non-eDP or
75 non-LVDS port, and then prefer the firmware device over platform
76 device over raw device per-PCI card. Delete all old data. At boot
77 simply apply whatever data we find. Also see
78 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libbacklight/tree/libbacklight.c#n194
79
80* rfkill: save/restore soft rfkill status across reboots
81
82* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
83
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84* ensure scope units may be started only a single time
85
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86* document that in instead of FsckPassNo= people should just add a manual dep to systemd-fsck@.service to their mount units.
87
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88* better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
89
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90* systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
91
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92* for transient units, instead of writing out drop-ins for all properties consider serializing them in the normal serialization stream
93
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94* logind: when logging out, remove user-owned sysv and posix IPC objects
95
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96* session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
97
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98* add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
99
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100* journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
101
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102* given that logind/machined now let PID 1 do all nasty work we can
103 probably reduce the capability set they retain substantially.
104
6aaa8c2f 105* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
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107* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
108
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109* Fedora: post FPC ticket to move add %tmpfiles_create to the packaging guidelines
110
e1b7e7ec 111* make sure gdm doesn't use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 112
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113* when parsing calendar timestamps support the UTC timezone (even if we won't support arbitrary timezone specs, support UTC itself certainly makes sense), also support syntaxes such as +0200
114
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115* when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop we should ratelimit that too.
116
c5757cc8 117* "systemctl disable" of a unit instance removes all symlinks, should
69af4503 118 only remove the instance symlink (systemctl disable of a template
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119 unit however should remove them all).
120
121* journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
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123* systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
124
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125* journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
126 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
127 to syslog when it works again.
128
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129* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
130
131* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
132
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133* add a fixed dbus path for "my own unit", "my own session", ... to PID1, logind, ...
134
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135* service_coldplug() appears to reinstall the wrong stop timeout watch?
136
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137* transient units: allow creating auxiliary units with the same call
138
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139* how to reset dynamically changed attributes sanely?
140
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141* when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
142
4ad49000 143* journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
3d3ee759 144
9444b1f2 145* gparted needs to disable auto-activation of mount units somehow, or
69af4503 146 maybe we should stop doing auto-activation of this after boot
9444b1f2 147 entirely. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701676
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148 Maybe take a BSD lock at the disk device node and teach udev to
149 check for that and suppress event handling.
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151* when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
152 the hierarchies of child processes
153
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154* document logic of auto/noauto and fail/nofail in fstab in systemd.mount or systemd-fstab-generator man page
155
9444b1f2 156* we should properly escape ssh hostnames we add into dbus server strings
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158* something pulls in pcre as so dep into our daemons such as hostnamed.
159
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160* document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
161
a65f06bb 162* change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
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163 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
164 so that we don't keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
165 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
166
167* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
168 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
169
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170* libsystemd-bus:
171 - default policy (allow uid == 0 and our own uid)
172 - enforce alignment of pointers passed in
eb01ba5d 173 - when kdbus doesn't take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
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174 - implement translator service
175 - port systemd to new library
176 - implement busname unit type in systemd
177 - move to gvariant
eb01ba5d 178 - merge busctl into systemctl or so?
e4ee6e5c 179 - synthesize sd_bus_message objects from kernel messages
c7819669 180 - properly implement name registry ioctls for kdbus
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181 - get rid of object hash table, use decision tree everyhwere instead?
182 - implement monitor logic
183 - object vtable logic
184 - longer term:
185 * priority queues
86312ab8 186 * priority inheritance
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188* in the final killing spree, detect processes from the root directory, and
189 complain loudly if they have argv[0][0] == '@' set.
190 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=961044
191
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192* add an option to nspawn that uses seccomp to make socket(AF_NETLINK,
193 SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_AUDIT) fail the the appropriate error code that
194 makes the audit userspace to think auditing is not available in the
195 kernel.
196
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197* Introduce a way how we can kill the main process of a service with KillSignal, but all processes with SIGKILL later on
198 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952634
199
69af4503 200* maybe add a warning to the unit file parses where the access mode of unit files is nonsensical.
19aa7c4f 201
69af4503 202* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
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204* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
205 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
206
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207* if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
208 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
209 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
210 needs setuid().
211
212* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
213
214* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
215
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216* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
217
218* timedatctl, localectl: possibly make some commands work without the daemon, for chroot situations...
219
4a449ed7 220* logind: add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
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222* we need dynamic units
223
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224* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
225
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226* test/:
227 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
228 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
229 - remove all the duplicated code in test/
b8b4d3dd 230
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231* systemctl delete x.snapshot leaves no trace in logs (at least at default level).
232
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233* make the coredump collector tool move itself into the user's cgroup
234 so that the coredump is properly written to the user's own journal
235 file.
236
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237* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
238 destination path over /etc and /usr. We shouldn't do that. Instead
239 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
240 destination.
241
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242* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
243 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
244
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245* add ConditionArchitecture= or so
246
247* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
248
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249* Support SO_REUSEPORT with socket activation:
250 - Let systemd maintain a pool of servers.
251 - Use for seamless upgrades, by running the new server before stopping the
252 old.
253
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254* after all byte-wise realloc() is slow, even on glibc, so i guess we
255 need manual exponential loops after all
256
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257* BootLoaderSpec: drop allowing ext234 for $BOOT. Clarify that the
258 kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify that the boot loader should be
259 installed to the ESP. Define a way how an installer can figure out
260 whether a BLS compliant boot loader is installed.
261
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262* man: remove .include documentation, and instead push people to use .d/*.conf
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264* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
265 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
266 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
267 that automatically.
268
69af4503 269* rework specifier logic so that we can distinguish OOM errors from other errors
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e5ec62c5 271* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
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273* journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
274
54c31a79 275* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably can't do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 276
8973790e 277* documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
3679d112 278
69af4503 279* add a tool that lists active timer units plus their next elapse and the time the units ran last
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281* man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
282
283* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
284
69af4503 285* man: extend runlevel(8) to mention that runlevels suck, and are dead. Maybe add runlevel(7) with a note about that too
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287* systemctl: maybe add "systemctl add-wants" or so...
288
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289* man: add more examples to man pages
290
291* man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
292
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293* write UI tool that pops up emergency messages from the journal as notification
294
295* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
296
297* msgcatalog determine default language of entries from the catalog
298 file name. i.e. foobar.de_DE.catalog would set the default entry
299 name for the entries to de_DE if they aren't explicitly suffixed
300 individually.
301
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302* use "log level" rather than "log priority" everywhere
303
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304* timedate: have global on/off switches for auto-time (NTP), and auto-timezone that connman can subscribe to.
305
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306* dev-setup.c: when running in a container, create a tiny stub udev
307 database with the systemd tag set for all network interfaces found,
308 so that libudev reports them as present, and systemd's .device units
309 will be activated.
310
356ce991 311* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 312
81d112a8 313* introduce ExecCondition= in services
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315* EFI:
316 - fsck hookup for the ESP mount is missing
317 - write man page for efi boot generator
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318 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
319 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 320 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 321
c0fe5db5 322* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 323
b44be3ec 324* re-enable "make check" for gtk-doc (broken for unknown reason)
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326* fstab: add new mount option x-systemd-after=/foobar/waldo to allow manual dependencies to other mount points
327 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812826
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b44be3ec 329* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 330
b44be3ec 331* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
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333* logind:
334 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
335 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
336 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
337 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
338 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
339 - logind: spawn user@..service on login
340 - logind: non-local X11 server handling
341 - logind: add equivalent to sd_pid_get_owner_uid() to the D-Bus API
b44be3ec 342 - pam: when leaving a session explicitly exclude the ReleaseSession() caller process from the killing spree
eb124a97 343 - logind: GetSessionByPID() should accept 0 as PID value
e5ec62c5 344 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
e673ad04 345
b44be3ec 346* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 347
b44be3ec 348* DeviceAllow/DeviceDeny: disallow everything by default, but whitelist /dev/zero, /dev/null and friends
e673ad04 349
b44be3ec 350* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
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b44be3ec 352* journal:
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353 - do not use magic msync() in src/journal/journal-file.c, just call fsync()
354 <alxchk> poettering: looks like msync just calls vfs_fsync
355 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/mm/msync.c#n18
c06bf414 356 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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357 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
358 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
359 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
360 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we can't log natively?
361 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
362 - journal: reuse XZ context
363 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
364 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
365 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
366 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
367 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
368 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
369 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 370 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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371 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
372 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
373 - journal: when rotating, copy over old acls/access mode
b44be3ec 374 - journal: send out marker messages every now and then, and immediately sync with fdatasync() afterwards, in order to have hourly guaranteed syncs.
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375 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
376 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
377 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
b44be3ec 378 - journald: check whether it is OK if the client can still modify delivered journal entries
f47ec8eb 379 - journal live copy, based on libneon (client) and libmicrohttpd (server)
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380 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
381 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
382 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
383 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
77a9e8de 384 - journalctl: expand tabs
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385 - journal: store euid in journal if it differs from uid
386 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
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387 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
388 - Port upower to use the journal for historical power information used in future calculations
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390* document:
391 - document unit_name_mangle()
392 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fileds in
393 [Install] units of other units, unless those units are disabled
394 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
395 - Document word splitting syntax for ExecStart= and friends
396 - document that units from /etc override those from /usr and /run
397 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 398 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 399 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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401* systemctl:
402 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
403 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
404 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
405 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
406 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
407 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
408 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
409 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
410 - systemctl enable: improve the success messages (i.e. more human readable, less shell-like)
411 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into doesn't exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
412 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
413 - support "systemctl stop foobar@.service" to stop all units matching a certain template
414 - Something is wrong with symlink handling of "autovt@.service" in "systemctl list-unit-files"
8b04b925 415
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416* introduce ntp.service (or suchlike) as symlink that is used to arbitrate between various NTP implementations
417
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418* deal with sendmail/postfix exclusivity
419
420* timer units:
421 - configurable jitter for timer events
422 - timer events with system resume
423 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
424 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
425 o DST changes
eb124a97 426 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
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428* update the kernel's TZ (sys_tz) when DST changes
429
430* sync down the system time to the RTC when:
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431 - CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (the user explicitely requested a time set)
432 - DST/timezone changes && ntp is active && RTC-in-localtime (never do it without ntp)
d2e83c23 433 This takes care of syncing ntpdate updates to the RTC, and DST updates for localtime
7a43e910 434 mode, it will never touch the RTC if the no reliable time source is active or the
d2e83c23 435 user did not request anything like it.
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437* if booted in "quiet" mode, and an error happens, turn on status
438 output again, so that the emergency mode isn't totally
439 surprising. Also, terminate plymouth.
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441* libunwind support for coredump pattern hook, and includes this in
442 the message for coredumps. After all, libunwind is now capable to
443 unwind coredumps since a few weeks ago. This probably requires that
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444 we have nice support for multi-line messages on display in
445 logs-show.c. Alternatively: use libelfutil, which seems to be the
446 better supported alternative.
e707c494 447
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448* figure out relation of --all and --full in the various tools
449
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450* add libsystemd-password or so to query passwords during boot using the password agent logic
451
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452* If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
453
454* fedup: add --unit to systemctl switch-root somehow
455* fedup: don't delete initrd on switch-root
456* fedup: generator
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b44be3ec 458* timedated:
b44be3ec 459 - timedated: refuse time changes when NTP is on
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461* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
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b44be3ec 465* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
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467* add "provisioning" instructions to setup an empty /etc + /var
468 - used to setup a new container from a shared /usr
469 - superset of tmpfiles model
470 - instructions shipped by packages and stored in /usr/lib/
471 - compose /etc/passwd and /etc/group, copy files
472 - able to create uid + gid used by packages, for file ownership
473
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474* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
475 waiting for the timeout
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477* high level net_prio setting in execution context
478
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479* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
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481* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab isn't
482
15abdb9a 483* refuse boot if /etc/machine-id is not useful (or set taint?)
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486 - nspawn: consider changing users for -u with su, so that NSS resolving works correctly
487 - nspawn: implement personality changes a la linux32(8)
488 - nspawn: --read-only is not applied recursively to submounts
489 - nspawn: make use of device cgroup controller by default
490 - bind mount read-only the cgroup tree higher than nspawn
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491 - nspawn: investigate whether we can support the same as LXC's
492 lxc.network.type=phys mode, and pass through entire network
493 interfaces to the container
494 - nspawn: maybe add a way to drop additional caps, in addition to add additional caps
495 - nspawn: maybe explicitly reset loginuid?
3679d112 496 - nspawn: make it work for dwalsh and shared /usr containers -- tmpfs mounts as command line parameters, selinux exec context
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498* cryptsetup:
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499 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
500 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
501 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 502 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 503
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504* move debug shell to tty6 and make sure this doesn't break the gettys on tty6
505
424a19f8 506* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 507 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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509* after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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511* make timer units go away after they elapsed
512
8556879e 513* http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2012-September/006502.html
d05c556b 514 (network and remote-fs on shutdown)
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516* come up with a nice way to write queue/read_ahead_kb for a block device without interfering with readahead
517
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518* move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
519
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520* create /sbin/init symlinks from the build system
521
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522* Query Paul Moore about relabelling socket fds while they are open
523
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524* system.conf should have controls for cgroups
525
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526* allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
527
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528* explore multiple service instances per listening socket idea
529
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530* shutdown: don't read-only mount anything when running in container
531
68f16003 532* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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534* ReadOnlyDirectories= is not applied recursively to submounts
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536* drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
537 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
538 can't delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
539 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
edca2e23 540 when done. That means clients don't get a successful method reply,
68f16003 541 but much rather a disconnect on success.
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543* use opterr = 0 for all getopt tools
544
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545* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
546
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547* allow services with no ExecStart= but with an ExecStop=
548
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549* dracut-shutdown needs to be ordered before unmounting /boot
550
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551* initialize the hostname from the fs label of /, if /etc/hostname does not exist?
552
88a6c589 553* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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556 - syscall filter: add knowledge about compat syscalls
557 - syscall filter: don't enforce no new privs?
558 - syscall filter: option to return EPERM rather than SIGSYS?
559 - syscall filter: port to libseccomp
560 - system-wide seccomp filter
c66d36e5 561
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562* .device aliases need to be implemented with the "following" logic, probably.
563
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564* load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
565 verify that it isn't masked via any of the names traversed.
566
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567* introduce Type=pid-file
568
59cea26a 569* change Requires=basic.target to RequisiteOverride=basic.target
35eb6b12 570
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571* when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
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573* move passno parsing to fstab generator
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575* automount: implement expire:
576 - set superblock timeout AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_TIMEOUT_CMD
577 - periodically run AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD
578 - every timeout/4 (original autofs logic)
579 - blocking, needs a thread
580 - run until -EAGAIN
581 - receive expire packet on pipe if kernel tells the timeout is over
582 - call umount
583 - answer expire packet on pipe with AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_{READY,FAIL}_CMD
584 - AUTOFS_DEV_IOCTL_EXPIRE_CMD returns
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586* services which create their own subcgroups break cgroup-empty notification (needs to be fixed in the kernel)
587
e01a15b7 588* ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
a888b352 589
abd55b16 590* udev:
3f60bcb5 591 - remove src/udev/udev-builtin-firmware.c (CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n)
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592 - move to LGPL
593 - unify utf8 validator code with shared/
594 - kill scsi_id
595 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
b8217b7b 596
18b754d3 597* cleanup syslog 'priority' vs. 'level' wording
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599* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
600
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601* support container_ttys=
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603* introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
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605* add DeleteSocketsOnStop=yes|no option to socket units
606
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607* There's currently no way to cancel fsck (used to be possible via C-c or c on the console)
608
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609* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
610
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611* default unix qlen is too small (10). bump sysctl? add sockopt?
612
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613* save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
614
615* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
616
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617* clean up session cgroups that remain after logout (think sshd), but eventually run empty
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619* when an instanced service exits, remove its parent cgroup too if possible.
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621* default to actual 32bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
622
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623* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
624 needs to be auto-respawned?
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626* when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
627
de6c78f8 628* tmpfiles: apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
7d441ddb 629
b44be3ec 630* for services: don't set $HOME in services unless requested
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633
d3c7d7dd 634* when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
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636* allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
637 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
638
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642 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
643
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644* make sure systemd-ask-password-wall does not shutdown systemd-ask-password-console too early
645
7c697168 646* support sd_notify() style notification when reload begins (RELOADING=1), reload is finished (READY=1), and add ReloadSignal= then to use in combination
253ee27a 647
71092d70 648* support sd_notify() style notification when shutting down, to make auto-exit bus services work (STOPPING=1)
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650* verify that the AF_UNIX sockets of a service in the fs still exist
651 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
652 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
653
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656* Make it possible to set the keymap independently from the font on
657 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
658
71092d70 659* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
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661* readahead:
662 - drop /.readahead on bigger upgrades with yum
663 - move readahead files into /var (look for them with .path units?)
664 - readahead: use BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG_RANGE instead of BTRFS_IOC_DEFRAG ioctl, with START_IO
665 - readahead: when bumping /sys readahead variable save mtime and compare later to detect changes
666 - readahead: make use of EXT4_IOC_MOVE_EXT, as used by http://e4rat.sourceforge.net/
b23de6af 667
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668* add support for /bin/mount -s
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670* GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
671
68c7d001 672* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 673 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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674 - enabling dbus services
675 - status update
7a2a0b90 676 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 677 - remote access
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678 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
679 - how to integrate cgconfig and suchlike with systemd
8bbabc44 680 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 681 - auto-restart
e707c494 682 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 683 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 684 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 685 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 686 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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688 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
689 - how to create your own target
690 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
691 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
73090dc8 692
44143309 693* allow port=0 in .socket units
3d57c6ab 694
71092d70 695* support systemd.mask= on the kernel command line.
3f7a8c4e 696
260abb78 697* recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
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699* Support --test based on current system state
700
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701* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
702
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703* maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
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705* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
706
129126f3 707* port over to LISTEN_FDS/LISTEN_PID:
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708 - rpcbind (/var/run/rpcbind.sock!) HAVEPATCH
709 - cups HAVEPATCH
a625ac1a 710 - postfix, saslauthd
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711 - apache/samba
712 - libvirtd (/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro)
713 - bluetoothd (/var/run/sdp! @/org/bluez/audio!)
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715
71092d70 716* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
246756ca 717
50f2a90d 718* io priority during initialization
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7ba97195 722* systemd-python:
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724 works with ^C
b04c8c83 725 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
7ba97195 726
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728 - plot per-process IO utilization
729 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
730 - document initcall_debug
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731 - kernel cmdline "bootchart" option for simplicity?
732
64eed40c 733* systemd-run is missing zsh completion scripts
c9d954b2 734
2f8cd170 735External:
74fe1fe3 736
cc9784c6 737* dbus:
cc9784c6 738 - dbus --user
3377af3e 739 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
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741 - allow disabling of fd passing when connecting a AF_UNIX connection
3377af3e 742 - allow disabling of UID passing for AUTH EXTERNAL
b69d29ce 743 - always pass cred data along each message
b44be3ec 744 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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748* make cryptsetup lower --iter-time
749
9096ad36 750* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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752* NTP: the kernel's 11-minutes-mode syncs the system time to the RTC, but only
753 in an ~30 minutes window. It does not adjust larger differences. Find a way
754 to tell the kernel, to always do a full time sync when the RTC is in UTC and
755 we are in 11-minutes-mode. When we trust the system time to NTP we also want
756 the RTC to sync up.
757
71092d70 758* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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761
762* dbus upstream still refers to dbus.target and shouldn't
763
764* dbus: in fedora, make /var/lib/dbus/machine-id a symlink to /etc/machine-id
765
766* add "# export SYSTEMD_PAGER=" to bash login
767
768* /usr/bin/service should actually show the new command line
769
d2bbca68 770* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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772* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
773
774* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
b1ce67bf 775
4641a16b 776* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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129126f3 778Regularly:
874aa2cc 779
129126f3 780* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 781
129126f3 782* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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784* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
8c6db833 785
14212119 786* %m in printf() instead of strerror(errno);
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788* pahole
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71092d70 790* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 doesn't free()!
a3a3e5b6 791
4db17f29 792* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
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9e5f3dbb 796Scheduled for removal or fixing:
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9e5f3dbb 798* xxxOverridable dependencies (probably: fix)